It's hard to believe that a country that is so small has 45 peaks! But fortunately only one or two of these are said to be active. And the ones that are said to be active only cause minor damages (ashes and such).

On the other hand some of the remaining peaks haven't erupted since 550 A.D.!

So when you're in Riobamba on Vacation be sure to take a lot of pictures of all these spectacular surrounding volcanoes or even climb them!

I myself have put on my New Year's resolution list "climb the Cotopaxi".

What do you think?

Have you been to Ecuador or Riobamba? If so have you ever climb a mountain or a volcano?